I am literally sitting at a console login because upgrading ubuntu from mantic to noble yesterday destroyed my entire system...because of python 3.12.

The apt output had a ton of errors about py scripts with invalid syntax, and those scripts failing apparently broke everything else and half the system basically got uninstalled, and most of what's left doesn't work, half the services other startup actions failed. Even the login message is broken with python syntax errors. Don't even have network to fix it, even wired let alone wifi. It's reinstall time.

This is today 2024, not during some 15 years ago big transition, and the scripts that broke are all fully packaged and package-managed parts of the os, not even random normal end user written.

This is not remotely a problem of the past and it's all better now and "have you used it lately?".